GFI WebMonitor 2009™ launches as stand-alone proxy version
By Giselle Borg Olivier on November 3, 2009 – 1:55 pm | No Comment

GFI WebMonitor 2009™ is now available as a stand-alone proxy.
The perfect internet monitoring solution for the SMB market, this new version of GFI WebMonitor will work in most networking environments and allows administrators to manage …

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Hacking Devices – Ensuring your printer is secure
Written by Emmanuel Carabott on November 20, 2009 – 11:39 am | No Comment

After talking about mobile phones as a threat to your organization we will today discuss yet another device widely in use and that too has the potential of being misused in a way that can compromise your organization. This device is generally seen as an innocent tool and few would consider any security implications that installing it might bring. I am talking about the printer.

Printers have advanced a lot in the last few years. Modern printers connect to your network to allow printing from anywhere, they come with additional functionality such as scanning, copying and faxing and they allow for comfortable configurations through web and ftp. However all this new functionality also opens the door for abuse.

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Hacking Devices – How to protect yourself from data theft
Written by Emmanuel Carabott on November 19, 2009 – 2:50 pm | No Comment
Hacking Devices – How to protect yourself from data theft

Some time ago I wrote an article about preventing virtual theft – theft of goods from a virtual world (such as a game) by compromising the machine from which you play the game – and …

How to Delete Windows Patch Install Folders in Vista
Written by Bogdan Bot-Rus on November 12, 2009 – 6:04 pm | No Comment
How to Delete Windows Patch Install Folders in Vista

After installing Windows Patches the user may find strange looking folders (with names that are hexadecimal numbers, i.e. only letters a-z and 0-9) at the top level of a drive.  Some of these folders are …

When employees bite back – Security in organizations
Written by David Kelleher on November 9, 2009 – 4:48 pm | 2 Comments
When employees bite back – Security in organizations

Two men in Indiana, US are facing up to five years in prison and a quarter of a million dollar fine after they were allegedly caught using old passwords to gain access to the company’s …

compiled from source = bad security practice
Written by Miro Stauder on November 6, 2009 – 11:44 am | No Comment
compiled from source = bad security practice

Today I saw a ‘how-to’ of what is supposed to be the ‘perfect server‘ setup. Well, the ‘perfect’ was not meant literally, but the setup is in fact very nice – from a functional point …

How to prevent Virtual Theft
Written by Emmanuel Carabott on November 5, 2009 – 2:59 pm | 2 Comments
How to prevent Virtual Theft

We have talked a lot about theft in the real world so I guess it is about time we also discuss theft in virtual world. The BBC reported that some Trojan software are now targeting Online …

GFI WebMonitor 2009™ launches as stand-alone proxy version
Written by Giselle Borg Olivier on November 3, 2009 – 1:55 pm | No Comment
GFI WebMonitor 2009™ launches as stand-alone proxy version

GFI WebMonitor 2009™ is now available as a stand-alone proxy.
The perfect internet monitoring solution for the SMB market, this new version of GFI WebMonitor will work in most networking environments and allows administrators to manage …

The way forward for GFI
Written by Walter Scott (CEO) on November 3, 2009 – 11:29 am | No Comment
The way forward for GFI

News of the launch of GFI MAX in July and the announcement that we have acquired Katharion have generated a huge amount of interest among the Channel and in the media.
To cite a few examples, …

Search Engines, Friend or Foe?
Written by Emmanuel Carabott on October 30, 2009 – 3:02 pm | 2 Comments
Search Engines, Friend or Foe?

Security is all about identifying threats and provisioning for them before your enemy exploits that threat. There are so many vectors to take care of that it truly is a daunting task.
Input validation, perimeter control, …

Protecting against Money Theft
Written by Emmanuel Carabott on October 29, 2009 – 2:29 pm | No Comment
Protecting against Money Theft

Time and time again we read stories about malicious people using Trojans to steal money. This time it happened to Cumberland County Redevelopment Authority where, by using a Trojan, a malicious hacker stole nearly half …

Protecting your time and resources with GFI WebMonitor is about to get even easier
Written by Gill Langston on October 28, 2009 – 10:30 am | No Comment
Protecting your time and resources with GFI WebMonitor is about to get even easier

In multiple articles on this blog, we have extolled the virtues of monitoring your network traffic.  From Walter Scott’s article on the virtues of time management and the productivity of the monitored employee, to the …